WorldBench
WorldBench's suite of everyday PC applications includes Photoshop CS2, Firefox, MS Office, Windows Media Encoder, WinZip, 3ds max, and more. The composite score it produces ought to be a decent indicator of overall system performance.

The Biostars are a little bit off-pace in WorldBench, turning in two of the three slowest scores. At least the D3's performance is on-par with its DDR3 competition, the Asus P5K3 Deluxe. The D2, however, is a full two points slower than the closest DDR2 board, in part thanks to a sluggish performance in WorldBench's Nero test. Quite likely, the board's ICH9 south bridge—specifically its lack of support for Native Command Queuing—is the culprit here.

Gaming

Gaming performance doesn't vary much from board to board, which is to be expected given that all seven use the same P35 Express chipset.